STS 1 Prelims Flashcards

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  • System of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method.
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Science

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  • Primarily interested in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Science

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  • Preoccupied with the “know-why” resulting in new knowledge usually disseminated through science papers.
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Science

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  • is a kind of human cultural activity which is practiced by people known as scientist and formerly called natural philosophers and savants.
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Science

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  • is complex system of people, skills, facilities, knowledge, material or physical resources and technologies devoted and directed to the inquiry into and understanding of the natural world.
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Science

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  • as a modern science is the dynamic cumulative inquiry into nature using the scientific method.
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Science

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 Deals with the natural world.

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Science

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 Concerned with WHAT IS (exist) in the natural world.

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Science

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 Focuses on Research

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Science

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 Discovering natural phenomena (knowledge)

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Science

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  • Comes from Greek words tekhne meaning “art or craft” and logia meaning a ‘subject or interest”.
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Technology

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  • Practical application of knowledge
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Technology

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  • Science of industrial arts and manufacture
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Technology

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  • Material products or result of human fabrication and making.
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Technology

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  • A complex system of knowledge, skills, people, methods, tools, organization, facilities, materials, physical resources devoted and directed to the research, development, production as well operation of a new or improved product, process or services in a reproducible way.
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Technology

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  • Is concerned with the know-how resulting in a new product or process distributed for commercial consumption or appropriated through patents.
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Technology

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 Deals with how humans modify, change, alter or control the natural world.

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Technology

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 Concerned with what can be or should be designed, made or developed from natural world and substances to satisfy human needs and wants.

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Technology

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 Focuses on Development and Innovation

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Technology

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 Inventing new or better tools and materials.

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Technology

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– an organized group of people associated as members of a community.

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Society

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  • which involves transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new materials, devices and processes.
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Development

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  • which involves commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and Development into marketable products or processes.
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Innovation

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  • a process of acquiring new knowledge.
    The power and promise of technology can be further enhanced through the study of technology to assure that all people are technologically literate in the future.
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Research

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  • people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values.
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Society

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  • gaining new knowledge
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  1. Fundamental/Basic Research
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  • practical application
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  1. Applied
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  • accomplishing a particular mission or technological objective
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  1. Mission-Oriented
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Types of Research

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  1. Fundamental/Basic Research
  2. Applied
  3. Mission-Oriented
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  • extraction, fabrication, processing, combination and synthesis of materials
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Material technology

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design and fabrication of tools, instruments, devices and machines.

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Equipment technology

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deals with the distribution of various forms of energy such as solar panels, wind turbines and hydrothermal.

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Energy technology

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based on machines that collect, store, process, retrieve, transmit and utilize data or information.

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Information technology

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these are devices, medicines, procedures and systems designed to preserve, repair, maintain, reproduce and improve living systems.

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Life technology

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Planning, organization, coordination and control of social activities

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Management technology

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Branches of Science

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  1. Geology
  2. Chemistry
  3. Physics
  4. Biology
  5. Astronomy
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Scientific Processes

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  1. Observing
  2. Describing
  3. Comparing
  4. Classifying
  5. Measuring
  6. Making inference
38
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comprising the pre-industrial technologies which are labor-intensive, small-scale, decentralized and based on empirical rather than scientific knowledge.

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First Wave Technology- Agricultural Age

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comprising the industrial technologies which were developed since the time of industrial revolution until the end of World War II. These are usually capital-intensive technologies and are essentially based on the classical principles of classical physics, chemistry and biology.

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Second Wave technology

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comprising the post-industrial or the high technologies which are called science-intensive since they are based on the modern scientific knowledge of the structures, properties and interaction of molecules, atoms and nuclei.

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Third-Wave technology

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the most primitive of all societies.

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Hunter and Gatherer Societies

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e.g. slash and burn farming

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Shifting and Farming

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both depend on the natural resources of the world to sustain the needs of people but both entail the risk of environmental damage.

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Agricultural and Mining Societies

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the use of coal marked the start of industrialization.

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Manufacturing and Processing Societies

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production of synthetic food and other resources and recycling of nonrenewable resources.

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Synthesizing and Recycling Societies